The Barrington Hills Park District Board will hold their regular monthly meeting this evening in person and via Zoom at 7:00 PM. A copy of their agenda can be viewed here.
Instructions for accessing the meeting remotely can be found here.
Posted in Cook, County, Entertainment, Plum Farm development on December 20, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The Penny Road Pub, a staple for food, drink and live music in South Barrington for nearly 50 years, will close Jan. 31. A “Farewell to Penny Road” concert is scheduled for Jan. 22.
Penny Road Pub, a live rock ‘n’ roll venue nestled among the trees of the Barrington area for nearly 50 years, will close its doors at the end of January.
But General Manager Kelly Cunningham said Monday that the shutdown may not be permanent. The building’s relatively new owner hopes to buy time to work with Cook County on getting the property rezoned for the improvements he wants to make, she said.
I things work out as planned, Penny Road Pub could return but even better, she said.
“There is hope,” Cunningham added. “He has some beautiful plans for it.”
The combination of a new owner along with the loss of some of the property’s grandfathered rights, COVID-19 and the cost of the planned improvements have created financial issues that make it easier to shut down and handle one thing at a time, Cunningham said.
The pub’s grandfathered 4 a.m. liquor license probably won’t return, as Cook County doesn’t give them out anymore, she added.
“That was our bread-and-butter, so to speak, for many years,” Cunningham said.
The news of the imminent closing was announced on social media Sunday.
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Posted in 220, 300, Hoffman Estates, Intergovernmental agreements (IGA), Land Disconnection, Land Use, Plum Farm development, Politics, Property Taxes, Real Estate, School Districts, Traffic, Village Government on November 9, 2021| Leave a Comment »
This rendering shows one of the six apartment buildings CRG Residential is proposing for the northwest corner of Higgins and Old Sutton roads as part of the Plum Farms development in Hoffman Estates. This building closest to the corner would be among those also including some ground-floor retail space.
Hoffman Estates officials expressed informal support Monday for a six-building apartment complex with some retail space to kick off construction of the long-delayed Plum Farms development at the northwest corner of Higgins Road and Route 59.
But they also urged developers to keep aware of the floodplain that overlaps the sprawling property during installation of underground utilities as well as surface construction.
CRG Residential of Carmel, Indiana, sought the courtesy review from the village board’s planning, building and zoning committee for 310 apartments spread among the six buildings specifically on the tax-increment finance district at the northwest corner of Higgins and Old Sutton roads.
Three of the buildings would be three stories, while the other three would be four stories. The ground floors of some of the buildings would also provide commercial space totaling about 14,000 square feet, including at the corner itself.
Representatives of CRG Residential suggested that commercial space might find such uses as an eatery or coffee shop as well as a medical or dental office.
The current owners of the 185 acres that make up the Plum Farms development also have plans for a self-storage facility along the railroad tracks at the western edge of the property.
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Posted in 220, 300, Agendas, Hoffman Estates, Intergovernmental agreements (IGA), Meeting Minutes, Plan Commission, Plum Farm development, Politics, School Districts, Topics Of Interest, Village Code, Village Government on September 15, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The Plan Commission will be holding a special meeting this evening at 6:30 PM. Some of the topics on their agenda include:
A copy of their agenda can be viewed here. The meeting will be held at Village Hall, or residents can try to listen in to the meeting proceedings by dialing 508-924-1464.
Posted in 220, Board of Education, Hoffman Estates, Plum Farm development, Politics, School Districts, Uncategorized on January 15, 2020| Leave a Comment »
This is an artist’s rendering of one of the seven apartment buildings planned for the Plum Farms development at the northwest corner of routes 59 and 72. A Cook County judge last month dismissed a lawsuit Barrington Unit District 220 filed over the proposal.
Barrington Unit District 220 won’t challenge a Cook County circuit court judge’s decision last month to dismiss a lawsuit the school system filed against Hoffman Estates and developers of the stalled Plum Farms proposal at the northwest corner of routes 59 and 72. Hoffman Estates’ development agreement limits Plum Farms to 1,250 homes of various types. The most recent plan submitted by a development partnership calls for 1,035.
But the last indication of progress on Plum Farms was interrupted by the filing of a lawsuit in July 2017 by residents of the nearby Regency at the Woods of South Barrington retirement community.
District 220 intervened in the complaint on the side of the residents, with the developer and village named as defendants. The density of the proposed development and the potential for additional students’ costs to exceed the increase in tax revenue were at the heart of the school district’s concerns.
While the residents’ original lawsuit was settled last summer, District 220 kept its part of the case active until it was dismissed in December. School board President Penny Kazmier announced at a meeting Tuesday night that the district will not pursue any further legal action in the case.
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